A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together orbiting each other—can serve as natural laboratories for understanding planet ...

NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

There's a comforting idea in planetary science. That no matter how strange a distant world looks, its beginnings might still ...